Your Shot at a (Super) Unique Instrument!

It's your chance to win a replica of my (pink!) Gray Guitar, made by Tom Gray, in the United Kingdom. This guitar has some unique features, including a humbucker that can be split, a regular single-coil pickup, and a Filter Tron at the front. It also has a fixed bridge, locking tuners, and a rounded neck for easy playing. All specs are below!

The only difference between our instruments is that my guitar has my daughter's name on its neck, while yours will have "Justin20" on the headstock. :) This raffle is part of the JustinGuitar 20 Years Celebration and will help me fund some fun actions for our celebration - coming in August - and new site development! I'll let you know more about that soon. :)

🙏 A big thank you to everyone who entered the last raffle for my Suhr Alt-T guitar. It was a roaring success, and the guitar is now with the winner, a guy called Gareth in the UK. :) The profit from the last raffle went towards funding a really cool new free tool - the Strumming Machine.

But not only that! My previous raffle made actually more money than I anticipated, so I also managed to donate £2,500 to the Clean Air Task Force and another £2,500 to the Action for Happiness, both charities that I strongly recommend that you check out. They're all part of the Effective Altruism movement - check it out. :)

👉 ENTER THE RAFFLE!

A Gray Guitar costs about £3,500, but the raffle tickets are only £5 each! If you buy four tickers, you will get one ticket for free for an extra chance to win. :) Enter the raffle here.

Guitar Specs

So, let's talk a bit about some of the guitar's features and why I wanted the specs that way.

Pickup Configuration

The pickups are pretty unique about this custom Gray Guitar! You will probably notice its configuration is different than usual - maybe even more different than you might realize! :) The bridge pickup is a splittable humbucker with tone control. So, when it's up on 10, we get a humbucker sound, super meaty, crunchy, and big! But when I turn the tone control down to one, it's a single-coil sound!

If you ever wondered about the difference in tone between a humbucker and a single coil, well, you've got both options right there! But as well, you've got all the in-betweens, so you can have that single coil sound and then creep a little bit of humbucker in there. I always use this when trying to get my guitar to sound like other sounds when I'm doing song lessons. ;)

We've got a fairly regular, excellent-sounding, single-coil pickup like a Strat middle pickup. I usually use this in single-coil mode! I don't tend to use the middle pickup on its own too much, but I love that out-of-phase blended thing. And then, of course, we've got the Filter Tron at the front. It's just a very different sound, one that I quite like.

Bridge

This incredible guitar also has a fixed bridge, so I don't have to worry about a Tremor bar lifting. I've got the output Jack on the bottom of the guitar rather than out the front, and never a big fan of that getting in the way. I guess when you've got a whammy virus, a bit more of a problem, but I've, you know, the aesthetic of it is a lot nicer as well. We got, of course, locking tuners, which I don't like having any guitars unless they're vintage ones without locking tuners on the back. :) It's a Mastery Bridge!

Body & Neck

The top of the neck is very heavily rounded, making it much easier to get the thumb over it. Often, if I'm playing with my thumb over the top of the guitar, I don't want the sharp edge of the neck. We've got clay dots, just purely aesthetic. It's an older body Master Grade quad (AAA roasted quarter Thorn flamed Maple's neck). A grade A A A A Rosewood fingerboard. It's got a Tim Renwick switching system. I think that's what Tom calls this, the splittable thing. Oh, and also, I don't use this as much as I maybe I should, but by pressing the tone control, it's got a push-pull thing going on on the tone control, and that activates the front pickup. So, even if I'm on the back pickup here, I can pop that on, and the front pickup will also be active. I don't use that a lot, but it's useful. That's the name. I'm just trying to think. It has a stew mac155 9.5 to 12 compound radius frets and a neck that talks about the frets, the stew mac 155s.

Enter the Raffle. This Custom Guitar Can Be Yours!

Yeah, this guitar is unique; it's not something you'll ever find in a store! You have to ask Tom Gray to make it! Tickets are £5 each. If you buy 4 tickets, you get 1 free ticket. I'm using the platform Raffall; it's safe and easy to use and accepts most different types of payments. You can buy tickets from anywhere worldwide, but I can only ship the guitar to places with DHL, FedEx, or Royal Mail service. That is nearly all over the world, and I'll pay any insurance, import duties, or taxes involved with the shipping of your guitar. You won't have a penny to pay if you win this guitar!

🚨 Please note we won't ship this guitar to Russia or recognize Russian residents as winners. Thank you for understanding.

Remember - you can buy as many tickets as you like, and the draw closes on August 25, 2023. The winner will be announced on the same day. I appreciate your support and wish you all the best of luck!

🎂 JustinGuitar 20 Years! It's crazy to think back 20 years ago when I first started the website, hand-coding all of the pages in the back of a tour bus. It's grown, and it's grown. Now, I've got a whole team supporting me, but we have managed to keep most of the content free for the end-user, something that I'm pretty proud of! However, we've still got ways to go. We've got some really exciting features in the works, but they need financing, and great developers are not cheap. So, I really appreciate your support. Thank you.

🤞 Cross your fingers, and enter the raffle to win your Gray Guitar!